National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

This paper explores the recent electronic surveillance controversy dealing with the U.S. Government’s National Security Administration spying on ordinary civilians. During this paper I will present pro and con arguments dealing with this controversy. I will also explain the social, political, ethical and legal impact of the electronic surveillance on our society. We as Americans are having our private lives monitored by the federal government through unwarranted surveillance. Many Americans were…

The practice of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) has been a controversial feature of the Intelligence community since the creation of CIA in 1947. When George Kennan came out with the strategy of containment in the 1946 “long telegram”, recurring to human activities to counteract the eventual Soviet infiltrations appeared as a better means than military activities. In fact, it would have allowed the clandestine collection of Soviet documents and archives through the personal contact with foreigners…

surveillances agencies in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (aka. The Five Eyes) that have continually violated privacy rights without due process and Constitutional oversight. Assange also defines the end of the era of Internet privacy for civilian Internet users, which vindicates Assange and other whistleblowers, such as Edward Snowden, in the revelations of secret U.S. documents that reveal mass-spying operations by the NSA and other data collecting agencies.…

assess the impact of Intelligence reform on the Global War on Terror. The research question is as follows: ??What is the impact of post-September 11th, 2001, intelligence reform on the Global War on Terror?? Secondary research questions might include: ?What is the impact of post-September 11th, 2001, emphasis on human intelligence on the Global War on Terror?? As well, another avenue of research could include: ?What is the impact of post-September 11th, of signals intelligence on the Global War…

accessible, and advanced. Because of that increase in popularity among the people, the government realized that it needed to create an intelligence organization focused primarily on global monitoring, collection, and processing of data information for counterintelligence and foreign intelligence purposes. This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American people, up until 2013, when…

information that answers standing CI collection requirements or other collection requirements.” This collection is defined best as “the systematic acquisition of information concerning the FISS, international terrorist organization, and adversary intelligence collection threat.” We see this function in work as a critical support node that supports an overall mission or…

On July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was born to his abusive father, Leslie Lynch King, and his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner. Two weeks after his birth, his parents divorced and him and his mother moved to Grand Rapids, MI. While in Grand Rapids, his mother met a businessman named Gerald R. Ford. Dorothy and Gerald soon got married. Gerald was immediately nicknamed “Jerry” Ford and in 1935 officially changed his name to Gerald R. Ford Jr. Gerald was a successful athlete…

was a defining moment in intelligence history. With the Cold War ending in 1991, The Cuban Missile Crisis has been a central subject of debate amongst security scholars concerning the role of intelligence analysts and agencies in its sequence of events that almost resulted in nuclear war (Garthoff, 1998). This report will argue that the Crisis occurred due to inaccurate and biased intelligence and a lack of structural organization in United States’ intelligence agencies. To address this…

counterintelligence department. Britain employed many different spying groups, each with slightly different purposes. The SOE, or Special Operations Executive, formed on July 22, 1940, was a British combination of three distinct spying groups to gather intelligence, scout, and plot against the Axis Powers in Occupied Europe, and help resistance movements, such as the Maquis. The organization was a well-kept secret, only known by those inside it, or related to it, referred to it with a code name.…

PRISM is a massive surveillance program established by the United States National Security Agency in 2007 with the goal of obtaining and analyzing information on criminal activity. In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the extent of the National Security Agency’s operations were much larger than previously realized (BBC News). It is now known that the National Security Agency has obtained information from the servers of major internet companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft…